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On Thurs. Jun. 21, art professor Xiaoze Xie spoke about artistic creation and presented his unfinished artwork inspired by a 25 day expedition to the historic Silk Road trade town of Dunhuang in China.

“Il miglior fabbro” is a phrase – meaning “the superior craftsman” – that Dante used to describe an Occitan troubadour of great fame and TS. Eliot later repurposed to describe his friend and poetic mentor, Ezra Pound. Now, over a year after his death and on the 40th anniversary of the landmark year in his career,…